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I think Paramount is in the process of a hostile takeover of WB Discovery, and Kushner is involved, so they'll probably get it, IMO. I think the fascists really want CNN at least.

Glad is definitely more positive than I'd put it. More like it's the least bad option in a world that is predicated on market consolidation

netflix or saudi arabia gets dc comics take your pick

My favorite part about all this DRM-lockdown that the movie industry loves so much is that gog.com makes tons of money and is successful with zero DRM. People buy games when it's convenient, they don't in general share them with 10 friends. Some people pirate, but if I don't have to deal with DRM from a first-party store, I'm not going to bother with piracy. Meanwhile, the movie industry spends millions on innovative new DRMs that make things worse. I have tried to keep up with 4K Blue Rays, but it's exhausting. Every 4k player sucks, freezes mid-movie, or refuses to play movies I paid full price for. DRM totally kills my incentive to pay studios for products.

This right here is the reason why piracy is as big and healthy as ever.

It's not about the money. Hell, we're spending thousands now whereas before it was at most a few hundreds per year. But now we can watch whatever we want without bullshit, without advertising

It's not about the ease of use. We now spent countless hours on building a libraries with everything we'd like to watch which I know will always be there

It's not about wanting to be "a criminal" or not caring about artists. Most artists get shit from Spotify, for example. We'd rather pay a few hundred per year to some foundation that will pay artists a fair share

It's about not wanting to deal with these huge anti social power monger companies and their shitty policies anymore.

You can't watch this, we won't allow it.

You can't watch that, you live in a country where it's bad for our profits if we allow you to watch that.

You can't watch this one because it's better for our profits that we dropped this so you now need to pay double for some other provider because we decided so.

We need to monitor your every move and excuuuusee me siiiirrr, i need to inspect ya aaasshole now... Please also give me all your personal information, minus the "please" because we'll just take it

You know, we're so big now, and you have so little options, we'll make you eat h add anyway even though you pay us

Fuuuuuuckkkk all of that.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30393940 <- everything you need

it certainly has evolved,

i used to think i enjoyed surfing sites for the best files but it really is nicer letting the Arrs do it for you

fmhy

Stremio with torrentio and realdebrid and you get 4k streaming from all torrent sites regardless of seeders

Jellyfin. Radarr. Sonarr. Big HDD.

It's like Kaleidescape but for poor people.

I’m still using:
A btguard VPN.
Transmission for the torrent client.
1337x.to to search.

I’m sure that’s not the latest, hippest setup, but it works for me.

Is that still an ok flow? Should I change anything? I’m old and set in my ways.

If you plan on building a proper pirate ship, a good place to start is https://trash-guides.info/.

Although I would highly recommend automating it with https://github.com/raydak-labs/configarr

I’m just glad it’s not Disney.

Is it weird that both options are horrific and dystopian?

If that happens: Don't watch shit and certainly don't pay for shit.

Even if nothing good is made for years, I guarantee there are millions of hours of undiscovered movie and series content for you to find in older releases. These companies are going to consolidate more and more, and will churn out sequels, spin offs, low effort movies, AI trash and easy cash-grabs. We need to not watch that shit and let these companies die. Pick the indie movies. Pick better quality older stuff. Wait for however long it takes for the industry to get over its unacceptable enshitification.

Games have the same problem. It is your responsibility to not pay for this micro transaction hell.

Good. Fuck Hollywood. Maybe this'll strengthen the worldwide film industry.

Netflix crap never comes to DVD.

I dunno if it's a thing exclusive to libraries or not, but at my public library I've seen some Netflix movies, and things like Stranger Things and Castlevania come through.

Not sure if those discs hit traditional media shelves or not.